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The Carlow Borough
Members Of Parliament
Henry Sadlier Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley
(Irish). (1775-1854)
From
Cheltenham 20.1.1830 to Mrs Bock, Tenby, South
Wales.
Representative peer. Seat: Dunalley Castle,
Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
UK MP for Carlow Borough1801,
and for Okehampton, Devon 1819-24.
He had the
privilege of free franking at this time as an
Irish Representative Peer.
Henry Sadlier
Prittie was the son of Henry Prittie, 1st
Baron Dunalley, and Catharine, widow of John
Bury, efq., daughter and coheir of Francis
Sadleir, of Sopwell Hall, co. Tipperary, esq.
He succeeded his father in the title in January
1801.
He was
elected to the Irish House of Commons for Carlow
in 1798, a seat he held until the Irish
Parliament was abolished in 1801. He was then
elected for Carlow Borough in the first
parliament of the United Kingdom, a seat he held
for only weeks. The same year he succeeded his
father as second Baron Dunalley, but as this was
an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to an
automatic seat in the British House of Lords. In
1819 Dunalley became a member of the British
House of Commons for Okehampton, and represented
this constituency until 1824. He was elected an
Irish Representative Peer in 1828, and sat in
the House of Lords until his death.
Lord Dunalley
married, firstly, Maria Trant, daughter of
Dominick Trant, in 1802. After his first wife's
death in 1819 he married, secondly, Hon. Emily
Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st
Viscount Hawarden, in 1826. Lord Dunalley died
in October 1854, aged 79. Both his marriages
were childless and he was succeeded in the
barony by his nephew Henry Prittie.
PRITTIE, FRANCIS ALDBOROUGH (1779-1867)
MP for
TIPPERARY COUNTY, IRELAND
From
Roscrea 14.3.1823 to Miss L Rollaston,
Camberwell, London.
MP for
Carlow Borough from 21 March to his resignation
in July 1801, for Tipperary 1806-18 and 1819-31.
Of Corville, Co. Tipperary.
HON. FRANCIS A.
PRITTIE. Died, March 8. At Dublin, aged 73, the
Hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie, Custos
Rotulorum and Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of
Tipperary ; only brother and heir presumptive to
Lord Dunalley. He was born at Kilboy, co.
Tipperary, on the 4th June, 1779, the second son
of Henry first Lord Dunalley, by Catharine,
second daughter and co-heir of Francis Sadleir,
esq. of Sopwell hall, co. Tipperary, and widow
of John Bury, esq. father of Lord Charleville.
He was formerly M.P. for the county of
Tipperary, for which he was first elected in
1807, after a contest in which Colonel Mathew
and himself, on the Whig interest, defeated Mr.
Bagwell and Mr. Pennefather. He was rechosen in
1812 without a contest, but in 1818 he was left
in a minority, Viscount Cahir and the Hon. M.
Mathew being returned. In 1826 he recovered his
seat, being returned at the head of the poll. In
1830 he was re-elected without a contest; but in
1831 he retired from parliament. He was twice
married, 1st on 10th
september 1800 to Martha, only daughter of Cook
Otway esq., of Castle Otway, co. Tipperary, and
widow of George Hartpole esq., of Shrule castle,
Queen’s county; she died in March 1802. He
married 2ndy July 16, 1803, Elizabeth, only
daughter of the Right Hon. George Ponsonby, Lord
Chancellor of Ireland ; and became a second time
a widower on the llth June, 1849. By his first
wife he had issue one daughter; Martha, married
in 1837 to the Hon. and Very Rev. Robert William
Henry Maude, Dean of Clogher, and has issue; by
his second wife he had issue three sons and
three daughters, 1. Mary, unmarried; 2.
Kate-Charlotte, married in 1830 to Lieut.
-Colonel William Leader Maberly, Secretary to
the Postmaster-General; 3. Henry Prittie, esq.
(now heir presumptive to the peerage,) born in
1807, and married, in 1841, the Hon. Anne Louisa
Mary O'Callaghan, only daughter of Lord Viscount
Lismore, and has issue a son, born in 1851; 4.
George Ponsonby Prittie, esq. who married in
1841 Henrietta Hester, only daughter of the late
Lieut. - Colonel Gregory, and has issue; 5)
Francis Sadlier Prittie, esq. late an officer in
the army, who married, first in 1838, Mary, only
child of the Hon. Peter Rose, one of the Judges
of Demerara, and secondly, in 1846, Susanna,
only daughter of William Henry Carter, esq. of
Castle Martyn, co. Kildare, and has issue by his
first wife; and 6) Fanny, married in 1838, John
Bagwell, esq. of Marlefield, co. Tipperary, and
has issue. [Gentleman’s Magazine 1853]
ONLEY,
CHARLES SAVILL (1757-1843)
MP for
CARLOW BOROUGH, IRELAND
From
Braintree 31.3.1826 to The Hon. Mrs Eyre,
Botleigh Grange, Southampton.
MP for
Norwich 1812-18 and for Carlow Borough 1818-26.
Of Brandon Parva, Norfolk.
Born Charles Harvey
Esq., 3rd son of Robert Harvey Esq,
banker, Mayor of Norwich by Judith, his wife,
dau of Capt Onley, RN, and sister of the Rev
Charles Onley of Stisted Hall. He was called
to
Bar, 24.11.1780 at
the Middle Temple. In 1783 he was elected
Steward, and in 1801 Recorder, of Norwich. In
1804 his portrait was painted by Sir Thomas
Lawrence at the expense of the Corporation.
He married 1st,
in 1783, Sarah dau of John Haynes Esq of
Twickenham and had children Onley, Sarah,
Judith. He married 2ndly, Charlotte dau of John
Haynes Esq. of Twickenham. He was MP for Norwich
1812-18 and for Carlow town 1818-1826.
In 1826 he resigned
his Recordership. He was Chairman of Norfolk
Quarter Sessions, Vice President of the
Literary Fund Socy. Lieutenant Colonel of Col.
Patterson’s Battalion of Norwich Volunteers, and
for many years manager of The Grand Union Canal
Co.
He took the
surnames and arms of Savill-Onley in 1822 on
the death of his maternal uncle, the Rev Charles
Onley, from whom he inherited a fine estate,
Stisted, in Essex.
He died, August 31,
1843 At Stisted Hall, Essex, aged 87.
At Stisted Hall,
Essex, aged 87, Charles Savill Onley, esq.,
Bencher of the Middle Temple. He was the third
son of Robert Harvey, esq., merchant and banker,
an Alderman of Norwich, (of whom and his family
many interesting particulars were given in our
Obituary, May, 1842, p. 555), by Judith,
daughter of Capt. Onley, R.N. Mr. Onley, then
Charles Harvey, was called to the bar, Nov. 24,
1780, at the Middle Temple, of which Society he
afterwards became a Bencher. In 1783 he was
elected Steward, and in 1801 Recorder, of
Norwich. In 1804, his portrait was painted by
Sir Thomas Lawrence at the expense of the
Corporation, and is to be seen at tlie east end
of St. Andrew's Hall, on the walls of which
building, portraits of other individuals of his
family are also suspended. In 1812 he was
returned to Parliament for Norwich, after a
contested election. At the dissolution of 1818,
he retired from the representation of his native
City, and
afterwards sat for Carlow from 1820 to 1826. It
was in December, 1822, that he took the names of
Savill Onley, on the death of his maternal
uncle, the Rev. Charles Onley, through whom he
came to the possession of a very fine estate in
Essex, besides a large personal property. In
1826 he resigned his Recor-
dership. Amongst other public situations
formerly held by this respected gentleman, were
those of a Chairman of the Norfolk Quarter
Sessions, a Vice- President of the Literary Fund
Society, and Lieutenant-Colonel of Colonel
Patterson'sBattalion of Norwich Volunteers,
enrolled in 1808 as a regiment of Local
Militia. He also filled for many years the
office of Manager to the Grand Junction Canal
Company. Mr. Onley was greatly beloved and
justly esteemed by his numerous connections and
friends. Mr. Onley was twice married. [Annual
Register 1843]
At Chester-terr.
Regent's Park, aged 82, Mrs. Savill Onley, widow
of Charles Savill Onley, esq. M.P. of Stisted
Hall, Essex, who died Aug. 31, 1843. She was
Charlotte, daughter of John Haynes, esq. of
Twickenham, and was Mr. C. S. Onley's second
wife, his first having been Sarah, her sister.
[Gentlemans Magazine 1847]
TULLAMORE, CHARLES WILLIAM BURY, LORD.
(1801-1851)
From
London 22.5.1833 to Mrs Duncombe, Copgrove,
Trowbridge. Free strike 22.5.1833.
MP for
Carlow Borough 1826-32 and for Penryn & Falmouth
1832-5.
Succeeded
his father in 1835 as 2nd Earl of Charleville.
Died, EARL OF
CHARLEVILLE. July 14. In the neighbourhood of
London, aged 50, the Right Hon. Charles William
Bury, second Earl of Charleville (1806),
Viscount Charleville (1800), and Baron Tullamore
of Charleville Forest, King's County (1797); a
Representative Peer of Ireland, and Major of the
King's County Militia. His Lordship was born on
the 29th April 1801, and was the only son of
Charles-William the first Earl by
Catharine-Maria, widow of James Tisdall, esq.
and only daughter and heir of Thomas Townley
Dawson, esq. Of this amiable and talented lady,
who died only on the 24th Feb. last, a memoir
was given in our Magazine for April. When Lord
Tullamore, the late Earl was elected to
Parliament for the town of Carlow at the general
election of 1826; and again returned in 1830 and
1831, on
each occasion without opposition. In 1832 he was
returned for Penryn and Falmouth, after a
contest which terminated thus—
Robert M. Rolfe, esq. ... 490
Lord Tullamore ... 428
J. W. Freshfield,
esq. ... 338
Charles Stewart, esq. ... 83
At the general election of 1835 he was defeated
at Penryn by Mr. Freshfield ; and in May of the
same year, when he opposed the re-election of
Sir Robert M. Rolfe (then appointed
Solicitor-General) he was again defeated by 348
votes to 326. He succeeded to the peerage on the
death of his father, Oct. 31, 1835 ; and
was elected a Representative Peer of Ireland in
1838. In both houses he was a supporter of the
Conservative party. The Earl of Charleville
married, Feb. 26, 1821,
Beaujolais-Harriet-Charlotte, third daughter of
the late Colonel John Campbell, of Shawfield, by
Lady Charlotte (afterwards Bury), daughter of
John fifth Duke of Argyll. The Countess died at
Naples on the 1st Feb. 1848, having had issue
four sons and two daughters, of whom three sons
and one daughter survive : 1. Charles William -
George, now Earl of Charleville ; 2. the Hon.
Henry-Walter, who died in 1830, in his 8th year;
3. Lady Beaojolais-EIeonora-Katherine ; 4. the
Hon. John James Bury, Lieut. R. Eng.; 5. the
Hon. Alfred Bury, Lieut. 69th Foot; and 6.
Julia, who died an infant. [Gentleman’s Magazine
1851]
VIGORS,
NICHOLAS AYLWARD (b1785 - d1840)
MP for
CARLOW COUNTY, IRELAND.
From
London 20.4.1837 to Mrs Cameron, Whitchurch,
Salop. Free strike 20.4.1837.
MP for
Carlow Borough 1832-5, for Carlow County 1835 &
1837-40.
Vigors, Nicholas
Aylward (1785/6–1840), zoological administrator
and quinarian, was born at Old Leighlin, co.
Carlow, Ireland, the son of Nicholas Aylward
Vigors (1755–1828) and his first wife,
Catherine, daughter of Solomon Richards of
Solsboro, co. Wexford. He entered Trinity
College, Oxford, in 1803, and was also admitted
a student at Lincoln's Inn in 1806. Leaving
Oxford in 1809, after preparing for publication
An Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of Poetick
Licence (1810), he purchased an ensigncy in the
Grenadier Guards. He was severely wounded during
the Peninsular War in 1811. Invalided home, he
left the army and returned to Oxford, graduating
BA in 1817.
As a wealthy gentleman Vigors devoted himself to
ornithology and entomology, becoming a fellow of
the Linnean Society in 1819. It was here that
his gifts as a reforming administrator and
systematist became apparent. He reacted against
the Linnean's botanical emphasis, slow
publication rate, and old methodology, and (with
W. S. MacLeay, J. F. Stephens, Adrian Howarth,
and others) formed the semi-autonomous
Zoological Club on 27 November 1822. It became a
forum for the zoological careerists at the hub
of an expanding maritime nation and for
methodological dissidents (Vigors was a
quinarian) rebelling against Linnaean
systematics. It also set the trend for
enthusiast-driven societies, being less formal
and socially stratified, and it prepared the way
for more regional autonomy of scientific
disciplines. While still in the Linnean orbit,
the club had its own by-laws (drawn up by Vigors
and others), electoral procedures,
subscriptions, and fast publication in its own
cheap house organ, the Zoological Journal
(1824–34), which allowed free taxonomic
discussion.
By the mid-1820s Vigors was the leading
quinarian, arguing for a geometric ordering of
species, orders, and families into sets of five
bounded by a circle, a system pioneered by
William MacLeay (1792–1865). The general minutes
testify that Vigors, the secretary of the club
and its last chairman in 1828–9, was the real
power. He exhibited specimens and circular
charts, and steered discussions towards
quinarian explanations. Quinarianism provided a
strong heuristic and led to his overhaul of
avian classification in ‘Observations on the
natural affinities that connect the orders and
families of birds’, read at the club in 1824 and
published in 1825. Vigors wrote on birds,
mammals, and insects in the Zoological Journal
and in 1827 became its principal editor until
the journal closed in 1834.
Vigors was elected a fellow of the Royal Society
in February 1826. By then his discomfort at an
increasingly restrictive Linnean Society was
apparent. As a result the Zoological Club's
personnel slid readily into managerial positions
at the new Zoological Society. It was Vigors,
with Joseph Sabine and Sir Stamford Raffles, who
drew up the prospectus for the Zoological
Society in February 1826, and it was founded in
April, with Vigors as its first secretary. He
was joined by E. T. Bennett, his Zoological Club
assistant, as vice-secretary in 1827.
Vigors's organizational flair was again
apparent. The Zoological Society minutes show
that he, Sabine, and Lord Auckland were the
driving force in the early years. Vigors's
careerists, interested in systematic science and
a vocation from imperial gains, staffed the
society's museum in Bruton Street, Mayfair.
However, they were often at odds with the
aristocrats, who, as the titular heads of the
promenading gardens, saw the zoo's role as a
game park, to provide exotic delicacies for the
nobleman's table. Vigors donated his preserved
birds to the museum, as well as display cases
and cabinets of insects. He bought collections
at auction and catalogued the museum's birds and
mammals. Bruton Street became a repository for
specimens gathered during surveying voyages.
Captain Phillip Parker King of the
Beagle
had Vigors examine his birds, and it was Vigors
who described the birds of the American
north-west from Captain Frederick Beechey's
voyage in the Blossom. Vigors's forty-odd
papers (some co-authored with Thomas Horsfield)
covered a wide ornithological range and
introduced many new species.
The zoological gardens, according to Humphry
Davy's original plan, were to exhibit animals of
the colonies and assert London's global
pre-eminence. Vigors's zoology too spoke of
imperial pride and he sparked a rash of
anti-Gallic papers from the Bruton Street
careerists. The former grenadier, who had seen
war with France, insisted that her Napoleonic
days of appropriating nature were over. However,
his domineering style alienated outsiders, not
least the prickly William Swainson, who accused
Vigors of bureaucratic dictatorship.
On the death of his father in 1828 Vigors
succeeded to the family estate in co. Carlow,
although he spent the scientific season at his
house in Chester Terrace, Regent's Park. He was
created an honorary DCL by Oxford University on
4 July 1832. On 15 December 1832 he entered the
reformed parliament as the member for Carlow,
resigning as secretary of the Zoological Society
in 1833. He was an extreme Liberal and usually
voted with the radicals. He rarely spoke in the
house, but he was a key radical witness before
the 1836 parliamentary select committee on the
British Museum, where he deplored the lack of
scientifically trained commoners among the
titled trustees and wanted a professional board
appointed by the learned societies. In the
management of science, Vigors proved himself a
critical transitional figure in the move towards
the hegemony of gentlemanly specialism over
aristocratic interest. He lost the seat of
Carlow (where he was deputy lieutenant) in 1835,
but was returned in 1837, and he represented
this constituency until his death at his home,
Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, on 26 October
1840. He was buried in the nave of Old Leighlin
Cathedral. Vigors did not marry but was survived
by a son, Ferdinand Vigors (b. 1814/15)
who went to Trinity College, Oxford, in 1833.
[ODNB Adrian Desmond]
Sources
‘Nicholas
Aylward Vigors’,
Proceedings of the Linnean
Society of London, 1 (1838–48), 106–7 ·
GM, 2nd ser., 14 (1840), 659–60 · A.
Desmond, ‘The making of institutional zoology in
London, 1822–1836’,
History of Science,
23 (1985), 153–85, 223–50 · Linn. Soc.,
Zoological Club papers · minutes of council,
Zoological Society of London · ‘Select committee
on … the British Museum’,
Parl. papers
(1836), vol. 10, no. 440 · Burke,
Gen. GB
(1858)
Died, Oct 26, At
his bouse in Chester Terrace, Regent's Park,
after a few days' illness, Nicholas Aylward
Vigors, esq. M.A. Honorary D.C.L., F.R.S.,
M.R.I.A., F.S.A., F.L.S., F.H.S. F.G.S., M.R.I.,
&c. of Old Leighlin, ??. Carlow, M.P. for that
county, and a Deputy Lieutenant of the same. Mr. Vigors entered as a member of Trinity
college, Oxford ; but leaving the university
without a degree, he became an officer in the
guards. Subsequently he proceeded B.A. 1817,
?.A. 1818, and was created an honorary D. C. L.
at the commemoration in 1832. He published in
1811 (in 8vo.) " An Inquiry into the Nature and
Extent of Poetic Licence ;" a second edition of
which appeared in 1813. The science to which Mr.
Vigors devoted the principal part of his time,
previously to his entrance into Parliament, was
Zoology; and most zealously and successfully did
he for many years pursue that interesting branch
of natural history. Ornithology, however, was
the particular department of the science in
which he especially distinguished himself. In
the preface to the " Gardens and Menagerie of
the Zoological Society delineated," published
(in 2 vols.) in 1830-1, which received his
general revision and superintendence, the editor
(the late Mr. Edward Turner Bennett) states,
"that in the ornithological department he has
adopted the arrangement of Mr. Vigors, as
developed by that gentleman in the 14th vol. of
the Linnean Transactions, and subsequently in
the 2nd vol. of the Zoological Journal : an
arrangement which he regards as having made the
greatest advance towards the exposition of the
natural system of any that has yet appeared."
His long and intimate connection with the
Zoological Society is well known ; in fact it is
no more than justice to unite his name with
those of Sir Stamford Raffles and Sir Humphry
Davy as the founders of that useful,
interesting, and flourishing institution. Mr.
Vigors ably filled the arduous office of
Secretary to this Society from its establishment
in 1826 until the early part of 1833; when,
finding that a due attention to its increasing
business was incompatible with the proper
discharge of his Parliamentary duties, be
resigned.
The Linnean Transactions, the
Zoological Journal, and the earlier proceedings
of the Zoological Society, are enriched with
numerous papers by Mr. Vigors. His zeal for the
welfare of this institution, his scientific
acquirements, and his readiness of access,
contributed materially in the earlier days of
the Society to its success. His liberality is
shown in every department of the museum to
which, on the formation of the Society, he gave
the whole of the zoological subjects he
possessed. An act of such munificence as this
the historians of scientific and literary
institutions have rarely had to record.
The
Society, not unmindful of what was due to Mr.
Vigors for his long and estimable services as
secretary, and also bearing in mind the value of
his splendid donation, passed, at its
anniversary meeting in 1833, the following
resolution: "That the thanks of the Society be
given to N. A. Vigors, esq. for the eminent
services which he has rendered to it by the able
manner in which he has performed, since the
commencement of the institution, the duties of
secretary, and for the very liberal donation
made by him at the foundation of the museum of
the whole of his extensive and valuable
zoological collections."
His Parliamentary
career commenced with his return for the town of
Carlow at the general election in Dec. 1832. His
opponent on this occasion was Mr. Francis Bruen,
who was defeated by a majority of thirty-five.
At the dissolution, which took place in Jan.
1835, Mr. Vigors again stood for Carlow, but was
beaten by his former opponent by a majority of
sixteen. At the same election Col. Bruen and Mr.
T. Kavanagh were returned for the county of
Carlow, but were afterwards unseated upon
petition, the election being declared void. A
new election thereupon took place, and Mr.
Vigors and Mr. Alexander Raphael were returned
by a small majority over their opponents, the
two unseated members.
A new petition was,
however, presented against the return by the
defeated candidates, and alter a long and
expensive scrutiny before a committee of the
House of Commons, Messrs. Vigors and Raphael
were unseated, and Col. Bruen and Mr. Kavanagh
seated in their stead. No further contest took
place until Feb. 1837, when a vacancy occurred
in the representation of the county by the death
of Mr. Kavanagh. Mr. Vigors again offered
himself to the constituency, and was returned by
a majority of thirty-six over his opponent, Mr.
Thomas Bunbury. Mr. Bunbury petitioned against
the return, but unsuccessfully. At the general
election in July 1837, Mr. Vigors was again
returned in conjunction with Mr. John Ashton
Yates by a majority of 87 over Messrs. Bruen and
Bunbury. The unsuccessful candidates petitioned
the House of Commons against the return, but the
Committee refused to open the registry, and the
petitioners were, therefore, compelled to
withdraw from the further prosecution of their
petition. Mr. Vigors's politics were of the
extreme Liberal character, and he almost
invariably voted with the Radical party. He
rarely spoke in the House, but was a diligent
and efficient member of Committees. He was an
active member of the vestry of St. Pancras, the
parish in which he resided in London. In his
manners he was remarkably courteous and kind. He
has left an only son, a graduate of Oxford, who
inherits much of the talent of his father.
[Gentleman’s Magazine 1840]
BRUEN,
FRANCIS (d1867)
MP for
CARLOW BOROUGH, IRELAND.
From
London 19.4.1836 to William Morris Esq., 3 South
Street, Exeter, Devon. Free strike 19.4.1836.
MP for
Carlow Borough1835-7, & 1837-1839.
Of
Coolbawn, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Gained MA 1820,
married 1823, Catherine Anne (1801-1864),
daughter of 7th Earl of Westmeath.
Died 15 December 1867
MAULE,
WILLIAM HENRY.
MP for
CARLOW BOROUGH, CO. CARLOW, IRELAND.
From
London 17.12.1838 to Philip Williams Esq.,
Wooley Green.
MP for
Carlow Borough 1837-9.
Maule, Sir William
Henry
(1788–1858), judge, was
born on 25 April 1788 at Edmonton, Middlesex,
the son of Henry Maule, a medical practitioner,
and his wife, Hannah,
née Rawson, a
Quaker from Leeds. Maule was educated at a
private school run by his uncle, John Maule,
rector of Greenford, Middlesex, who was
described by Charles Greville, a fellow pupil at
the school, as ‘an excellent scholar and a great
brute’ (C. Greville, Memoirs, 1885, 2.101). Greville described
Maule himself as ‘a very clever boy’. In October
1806 Maule matriculated from Trinity College,
Cambridge, where he was senior wrangler in the
mathematical tripos of 1810 and also won the
first Smith's prize. In October 1811 he was
elected a fellow of Trinity. After taking his MA
degree he stayed in Cambridge for some time,
working as a mathematical coach. Among his
pupils was Edward Ryan, afterwards chief justice
of Calcutta, who remained a lifelong close
friend. Another of his Cambridge friends was
Charles Babbage, the mathematician.In the autumn of 1810 Maule became a student at
Lincoln's Inn. While still a student there he
was offered, but declined, the professorship of
mathematics at East India College, Haileybury.
In 1814 he was called to the bar, took chambers
at 3 Essex Court, Temple, and joined the Oxford
circuit. His progress at the bar was slow at
first, but he gradually obtained a reputation
and business as a commercial lawyer, becoming an
authority on marine insurance. He became king's
counsel in Easter term 1833 and in 1835 was
appointed counsel to the Bank of England in
succession to Sir James Scarlett, who had been
appointed chief baron. Not only did this
position earn him a good deal of money but it
also enabled him to act as leading counsel for
the sitting member in the county Carlow election
petition. His success in the case led to his
being returned for Carlow borough as a Liberal
MP at the general election in August 1837.
In March 1839 Maule was appointed a baron of the
exchequer in succession to Baron Bolland and was
knighted. In Michaelmas term 1839 he was
transferred to the common pleas on the death of
Mr Justice Vaughan. He continued a member of
that court until June 1855, when he resigned
because of ill health. Shortly after his
resignation, Maule was sworn of the privy
council, and acted as a member of the judicial
committee until his death.
Maule was considered by his colleagues to be an
excellent judge who combined common sense with
legal knowledge, and was affectionately
remembered for his humorous irony. At the
Warwick assizes, for instance, while sentencing
to one day's imprisonment a poor man convicted
of bigamy, whose first wife had deserted him and
lived with another man, Maule outlined at length
to the bemused prisoner the various legal steps
which he must take in order to obtain a divorce
at the cost of about £1000.
Maule died unmarried on 16 January 1858 at the
home he shared with his widowed sister, Emma
Maria Leathley, and his unmarried niece, Emma
Leathley, at 22 Hyde Park Gardens, London. [ODNB
J. D. FitzGerald, rev.
Hugh Mooney]
 GISBORNE, THOMAS (c1790-1852)
MP for
DERBY COUNTY, NORTHERN DIVISION.
From Derby
26.3.1837 to Messrs Jones Loyd & Co., Bankers,
London.
Of Horwich
House, Derbyshire. MP for Stafford, Staffs.
1830-2, for Derbyshire North 1832-37, for
Carlow, Ireland, 1839-41 and for Nottingham,
Notts 1843-7.
Gisborne, Thomas,
the younger
(1794–1852), politician,
was the eldest son of Thomas Gisborne
(1758–1846), prebendary of Durham, and his wife,
Mary, daughter of Thomas Babington, of Rothley
Temple, Leicestershire. The younger Gisborne's
first wife was Elizabeth (d. 20 June
1823), daughter of John Fyshe Palmer of Ickwill,
with whom he had four children, and his second,
whom he married in 1826, was Susan, widow of
Francis Dukinfield Astley of Dukinfield,
Cheshire. Gisborne was a person of some
substance in Derbyshire, with a seat at Howick
House, and was deputy lieutenant of the county.
He also had business interests in Manchester.
Gisborne's
political career was so unsettled that it was
hard for him to make any real mark. He was
elected unopposed for Stafford in 1830, and
again in 1831, as a supporter of the Reform Bill. From
1832 until 1837 he represented North Derbyshire.
In 1839 he stood for Carlow, and, though beaten
at the poll, was seated on petition. In 1841 he
stood unsuccessfully for both Newport (Isle of
Wight) and South Leicestershire. In 1842 he
unsuccessfully contested Ipswich. At last, in
1843, he was elected for Nottingham, but was
defeated in 1847. In 1849 he was unsuccessful at
Kidderminster. He was ‘a whig, and a good deal
more’, and supported the ballot, the abolition
of church rates, and the extension of the
suffrage; he was also a strong supporter of the
Anti-Corn Law League. He was a vigorous speaker,
with much humour, and spoke frequently at the
free-trade gatherings in Drury Lane, London. He
published some speeches and pamphlets; and in
1854 he published Essays on
Agriculture, three of the four of which
had already appeared in the Quarterly Review (nos. 168, 171, 173). He
died at his family's home, Yoxhall Lodge,
Staffordshire, on 20 July 1852. [Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography H. C. G.
Matthew]
The author of a
volume of "Essays on Agriculture," the late
THOMAS GISBORNE, of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire,
was born in 1787, and died in 1852. He was an
extensive landowner in the counties of Stafford
and Derby; he personally farmed a considerable
acreage of arable and pasture land, and was
especially conversant with the dairy and with
cattle and sheep feeding. Mr. Gisborne was also
well acquainted with the agriculture of
Scotland, both Lowland and Highland. Few
agriculturists of his day were more generally
known in their class; few men, in public or
private life, were more beloved. His talents,
his various attainments, his warm heart and
popular manners, his ardent love of field
sports, made him the delight of numerous
friends. A Member of the British House of
Commons for a quarter of a century, he was well
known as a "public man," and his speeches and
pamphlets on various subjects were numerous
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